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Shopping in the UK sucks

23/09/2008 – 18:26

I wanted to buy a desk lamp (anglepoise, for electronics work), some pegboard and a bench drill. Hardly anyone sells good desk lamps for a reasonable price. Pegboard no longer exists, or maybe it was just a figment of my imagination all along. My local B&Q, apparently the largest such store in the whole of [...]

By mojo | Comments (1)

England is doomed

10/09/2008 – 21:14

I’ve been thinking about this blog post for a while, and today’s Jeremy Vine show finally prompted me to write it. A council in Shropshire is backtracking on orders to park wardens to stop and quiz adults not accompanied by children, and there was a phone in debate about it. That’s not what the post [...]

By mojo | Also posted in law, politics | Comments (0)

Reaction to Virgin Media throttling: download more

11/08/2008 – 19:31

Virgin Media’s traffic shaping has recently got even worse, with throttling kicking in during the day as well as the evening if you download or upload too much. VM effectively reduced the capacity of the connection from 20Mb to around 16Mb, although in practice it’s much lower than even that since if you do get [...]

By mojo | Also posted in networking | Comments (0)

Benefit reforms for the sick

23/07/2008 – 19:26

I read the BBC article on benefit reforms for those out of work with interest and some concern. The Daily Hate Mail reading morons who were voted to the top on the Have Your Say discussion were even more disturbing. There seems to be a perception that everyone on benefits is a scrounger, simply work-shy [...]

By mojo | Also posted in politics | Comments (1)

I own this number

05/06/2008 – 16:27

I own the copyright on the following number. It’s mine, and I’m licensing it under a Creative Commons licence for everyone: 7840503105526216071103157865574030473816135816274075 6659995647367689887704190271686800028652662117436767 3277367311120646735130020647991793716906378068496038 1695401876427914616971423241556196069007992684776810 7140421413129977448963987771460202578977180817576301 0637945407349920630842274701733252363545567191751200 8418817060739478022487892365696480484556391288052670 8409265757194997631649105684044991085523359617979771 5537165589804778865387221835889651966246386788137233 1462875349602216664841504764233358486811183290582291 5278275287922576877967530552582820747972639422108865 3395380485315505521832314901913360126089945951144684 5540895433481351775188493888336736897213647236632858 513568396609123 (C) 2008 MoJo. Creative Commons Licence. By using this number you agree to the licence. This number is a prime, [...]

By mojo | Also posted in law | Comments (0)

BNP using BBC Have Your Say as a platform?

02/05/2008 – 11:25

The BBC Have Your Say forums have always been full of ignorant morons, but it looks now like the BNP are making a concerted effort to use the site as a platform for their views. Here is a selection of the highest voted comments today: No elections in my area this time but I would [...]

By mojo | Also posted in politics | Comments (5)

EU to expand definition of criminal terrorism

20/04/2008 – 11:24

I was reading over at Ars Technica that the EU has agreed to harmonise what acts are considered criminal in relation to terrorism. In particular, they want “public provocation to commit a terrorist offence” to be a crime. Problem is, who determines what is provocation? It’s that old chestnut again – who defines what kind [...]

By mojo | Also posted in law, politics | Comments (0)

Sabotaging open source

15/04/2008 – 14:00

Following on from my previous post about new forms of internet trolling, it seems that sabotaging open source projects is also a popular new pastime for asshats. Take avr-libc. It used to have two functions sbi() and cbi(). These two functions are incredibly useful, pretty much the bread and butter of what microcontrollers do. So, [...]

By mojo | Also posted in avr | Comments (0)

Never Mind The Bastards

11/04/2008 – 23:56

Wikipedia is a fantastic resource, just as shame so many editors are bastards. AVRs are wonderful little microcontrollers – easy to learn and work with, very versatile and very cheap. Unfortunately, the AVR community are mostly bastards. There seems to be a new kind of griefer on the internet – the academic griefer. Rather than [...]

By mojo | Comments (1)

BT and Phorm secretly tracked 18,000 customers in 2006

01/04/2008 – 13:28

This article posted on The Register is quite alarming – apparently BT secretly trailed the Phorm tracking system in 2006 with 18,000 of it’s customers. Apart from the fact that the trial was probably illegal, it shows just how little BT care about their customers privacy. The second page of the article has an amazing [...]

By mojo | Also posted in networking, privacy, security | Comments (2)

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